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Jessica Jagoe – City of Arden Hills December 23, 2022 Project Narrative – Lindey’s Prime Steakhouse, Arden Hills, MN Page 5 best practice and that providing cash-in-lieu for the remaining amount allows the City to fund planting trees in areas that would be better suited, thus this is a better benefit to the public interest of the code. In addition, and for your information, the 4-foot wide landscape corridor on the north side of the existing parking lot is scheduled to have a screen fence installed at a future time by the Owner, so this areas needs to be free of trees for future construction. · Public Street Frontage Trees – Code indicates 1 tree per 50 linear feet of public street frontage. At 435 linear feet of frontage, this would equate to 9 trees required, but only providing only 5 total (4 existing, 1 new). Upon review, a significant amount of frontage does not accommodate tree plantings to officially qualify, but have numerous existing trees on site to compensate, thus requesting that the existing and proposed trees identified are adequate and no further street frontage trees be required. The grandfathered-in westerly existing parking lot is located at the roadway right-of-way edge, thus there is no green space is available on-site to plant any trees in this area. Future freestanding signs at the driveways and overhead utility lines also complicate potential tree planting areas. Lastly, there is a cluster of large existing trees, southeast of the restaurant, that is important to preserve from the Owners preference, and not desired to plant additional trees under the existing canopy. It is our perspective that adding more trees in limited landscape space along street frontage areas does not provide a noticeable benefit to the public interest, and that the numerous existing trees throughout the site provides the necessary context of the code intent. Sincerely, SRF CONSULTING GROUP, INC. Paul D. Schroeder, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP Project Manager - Site Development PDS Enclosure(s)/Attachment(s) cc: Mark and Tracy Lindemer-Lindey’s, Inc, Tom Nash – Ramsey County S:\Marketing\Proposals\2022 Letter Proposals\15910.PP Ramsey County Lindeys Steak House - Site\Sent\Lindeys\221223_Lindeys- Submittal\Backup\Narrative_Lindeys-ArdenHillsMN_SRF_2022-12-23.docx